here here. a perfect example of the beauty of the system — small contributions by lots of people interlock and coalesce into interesting and beautiful things.

There is no way a commercial company would bother porting the breadth of applications to the MSS that exist for it now. Only open source could have made something like that possible, because the effort of doing it could be split across thousands of people.

So not just thanks to me… thanks to you, to rwhitby, to the fsf, to the other original package authors… thanks to everyone.